GIANT ACOUSTIC SHED DISMANTLEd AFTER 5 YEARS

The Story Of Tunnelling

On the latest episode of Tunnel Vision, our YouTube series going behind the scenes on the Tideway project, we tell the tunnelling story from start to finish.

How did we dig the Super Sewer?

One of the largest temporary structures on the project has been dismantled at our Kirtling Street site in Battersea.

The giant ‘acoustic shed’ – built to contain noise and dust –was 21m high, with a footprint around half the size of St Paul’s Cathedral. With tunnelling work now complete, the shed is no longer needed has been taken down.

Two cranes operated inside the structure around the clock while Tideway’s tunnelling work was underway. These cranes completed more than 100,000 safe lifts during their five years of operation, lifting more than 56,000 tunnel segments 40 metres into the tunnel below.

Now the shed is being recycled at Laing O’Rourke’s Explore Business at its Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction – Europe’s largest and most advanced pre-assembly manufacturing facility.

Why did we need so many giant tunnelling machines? Find out by scanning the QR code below and watching the full episode.

In a new two-part BBC Two documentary, Paul Whitehouse travels around England and Wales to explore why rivers and waterways are in decline and what needs to be done to protect them. In episode two, Paul visits Tideway’s Greenwich Pumping Station site to learn about the Super Sewer and see what we’re doing to clean up the River Thames. You can watch ‘Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers’ on BBC iPlayer.

DID YOU KNOW?

Tideway has used the River Thames to transport construction materials and excavated waste where possible. Tideway’s approach of swapping lorries for barges has meant lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduced traffic congestion and a lower risk of road traffic accidents.

These benefits and many others in the areas of environment, employment and health and safety are detailed in a new social impact report of the Tideway project. Scan the QR code to read the full report.

New charity partners

Tideway has recently teamed up with two charities to support through a charity partnership to the end of 2024.

The Felix Project and Time & Talents both topped a staff poll and will now benefit from staff fundraising, volunteering and other support.

The Felix Project, based across London, collects fresh, nutritious food that cannot be sold and delivers this surplus to charities and schools so they can provide healthy meals and help the most vulnerable in our society.

And Time & Talents is a community organisation supporting the young and old in and around East London with its two community centres bringing people together for mutual support, fun and friendship.

Tideway’s previous staff charity partners were South London Cares, Single Homeless Project and Drive Forward Foundation – and in five years more than £135,000 was donated and more than 1,400 hours volunteered for them.

To find out more about Tideway’s new charity partners, you can visit their websites below: www.thefelixproject.org www.timeandtalents.org.uk